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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Michele Filgate
literary fiction
memoir
past tense
first POV
~277 pp
Vibe
A literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, sexual content.
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Style Fingerprint
Prose density
75
sparsedense
Pacing
40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone
30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding
10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot
85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority
90
externalintrospective
Ending
60
unresolvedcathartic
Content
Sexual content
50%
noneexplicit
Structure & Cast
Structure
| Word count | 69,205 |
| Page count | ~277 pp |
| Prologue | — |
| Epilogue | — |
| Tense | past |